A26883:1606
Richard Baxter's Catholic theology plain, pure, peaceable, for pacification of the dogmatical word-warriors who,…Richard Baxter's Catholick theologie plain, pure, peaceable, for pacification of the dogmatical word-warriours who,…
Richard Baxter's Catholic theology plain, pure, peaceable, for pacification of the dogmatical word-warriors who, 1. by contending about things unrevealed or not understood, 2. and by taking verbal differences for real,Richard Baxter's Catholick theologie plain, pure, peaceable, for pacification of the dogmatical word-warriours who, 1. by contending about things unrevealed or not understood, 2. and by taking verbal differences for real,
London: printed by Robert White for Nevill Simmons, 1675
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
242. No man can be sure that his Faith is sincere and saving, who is not assured that it will help him to love God as God above all (yea already doth so) and that it mortifieth selfishness, and will prevail with him to deny even life it self, and all the world, for Christ and Salvation. So far as a man doubteth of any of this, he must needs doubt of his own sincerity.
243. So weak is Faith in most that are sincere, and so little kept in exercise, and so strong is sense, and self, and flesh, and worldly b•its and interest, and Satan's temptations, that in my experience (who have conversed with as many that are careful of their Souls as most have done I think) it is a very small number that I could ever hear say, I am certain of my Justification and Salvation; But a great number who have lived in holy confidence, hope and peace, and some in great joy, but most in tolerable fears and doubting, and some few oppressed by those doubts. So that certainty of Salvation is very rare.
243. So weak is Faith in most that are sincere, and so little kept in exercise, and so strong is sense, and self, and flesh, and worldly b•its and interest, and Satan's temptations, that in my experience (who have conversed with as many that are careful of their Souls as most have done I think) it is a very small number that I could ever hear say, I am certain of my Justification and Salvation; But a great number who have lived in holy confidence, hope and peace, and some in great joy, but most in tollerable fears and doubting, and some few oppressed by those doubts. So that certainty of Salvation is very rare.